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Letting Dreams of Fear Fade Away

God is the Alternate to dreams of fear. Who shares in [dreams of fear] can never share in Him. But who withdraws his mind from sharing [dreams] is sharing Him. There is no other choice. Except you share it, nothing can exist. And you exist because God shared His Will with you, that His creation might create.

It is the sharing of the evil dreams of hate and malice, bitterness and death, of sin and suffering and pain and loss, that makes them real. Unshared, they are perceived as meaningless. The fear is gone from [dreams] because you did not give them your support. Where fear has gone there love must come, because there are but these alternatives. Where one appears, the other disappears. And which you share becomes the only one you have. You have the one that you accept, because it is the only one you wish to have.

You share no evil dreams if you forgive the dreamer, and perceive that he is not the dream he made. And so he cannot be a part of [your dream], from which you both are free. Forgiveness separates the dreamer from the evil dream, and thus releases him.… There is no compromise. You are your Self or an illusion. What can be between illusion and the truth? A middle ground, where you can be a thing that is not you, must be a dream and cannot be the truth. (A Course in Miracles, T-28. V.1:6-3:3;3:8-11. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Conflict appears to be everywhere in the dream of being separate and alone. That is why it is a dream of fear. It excludes the oneness of Love, which cannot conflict with Itself. In the dream, conflict is everywhere: in relationships, politics, cultures, countries and even within our thoughts.

As we learn to forgive the dreamer of these dreams, our brothers or ourselves, we learn to disconnect the dreamer from the dreams we made. This is like releasing the tether that keeps a balloon from floating free. The truth in us is free to be everywhere, always. But when we perceive ourselves as in the dream we made, we are bound to the world of separation and we cannot see beyond it.

As always, we have a Helper Who will bring us the vision we need to see beyond the dream and recognize that the truth in the dreamer is God’s Creation — Love and nothing else. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see as He sees — to look past the dreams of conflict, and peace will fill our hearts as dreams of fear fade away.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Loving Correction

If you point out the errors of your brother’s ego you must be seeing through yours, because the Holy Spirit does not perceive his errors. This must be true, since there is no communication between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego makes no sense, and the Holy Spirit does not attempt to understand anything that arises from it. Since He does not understand it, He does not judge it, knowing that nothing the ego makes means anything.

When you react at all to errors, you are not listening to the Holy Spirit. He has merely disregarded them, and if you attend to them you are not hearing Him. If you do not hear Him, you are listening to your ego and making as little sense as the brother whose errors you perceive. This cannot be correction. Yet it is more than merely a lack of correction for him. It is the giving up of correction in yourself.

When a brother behaves insanely, you can heal him only by perceiving the sanity [Son of God] in him.

To perceive errors in anyone, and to react to them as if they were real, is to make them real to you.

Your brother’s errors are not of him, any more than yours are of you. Accept his errors as real, and you have attacked yourself. If you would find your way and keep it, see only truth [the Son of God] beside you for you walk together. The Holy Spirit in you forgives all things in you and in your brother. His errors are forgiven with yours. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.III.3:1-5:1;6:7;7:1-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

If the Holy Spirit doesn’t understand the ego, it must certainly be a waste of time for us to try to understand it. Insanity makes no sense, and the ego is insane, being the denial of all that is Real. While we identify with the ego, we will see the ego thought system acted out everywhere.

The lesson we need to learn is to offer all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His correction. On our own we cannot correct ourselves. But He will help us overlook the insanity and show us the Son of God that is in everyone, including ourselves. This is the gift of forgiveness the Holy Spirit holds out to us. As we learn to overlook the ego, we remember that we are Love as Love created us. We return to the peace and joy of God.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s correction of our perceptions, for we want to remember Love.

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Returning to the Heart of Love

What waits in perfect certainty beyond salvation is not our concern. For you have barely started to allow your first, uncertain steps to be directed up the ladder separation led you down. The miracle alone is your concern at present. Here is where we must begin. And having started, will the way be made serene and simple in the rising up to waking and the ending of the dream. When you accept a miracle, you do not add your dream of fear to one that is already being dreamed. Without support, the dream will fade away without effects. For it is your support that strengthens it.

God builds the bridge, but only in the space left clean and vacant by the miracle. The seeds of sickness and the shame of guilt He cannot bridge, for He can not destroy the alien will that He created not. Let its effects be gone and clutch them not with eager hands, to keep them for yourself. The miracle will brush them all aside, and thus make room for Him Who wills to come and bridge His Son’s returning to Himself.

Be not afraid, my child, but let your world be gently lit by miracles. And where the little gap was seen to stand between you and your brother, join him there. And so sickness will now be seen without a cause. The dream of healing in forgiveness lies, and gently shows you that you never sinned. The miracle would leave no proof of guilt to bring you witness to what never was. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.III.1;6;8:1-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

True forgiveness is like opening the shutters and doors to a room that is enclosed off from the light. The light easily dissipates the darkness, for there is no resistance. Darkness has no substance to resist the light. Only the walls, shutters and doors of separation we have made in our minds seem to contain the darkness. Forgiveness removes the barriers to the Light of Love. 

The thought system of separation that built the barriers to Love cannot provide the means to remove the barriers. But the Mind of Love is not limited by the mistaken belief in separation. It is to the Voice of Love that we must turn for help to see through the appearances that seem to make separation real. As we practice letting Love shine Its Light on all our perceptions, the barriers we have made fade into the nothingness from which they came. And we are welcomed back into the Heart of Love we never truly left.

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Welcoming the Holy Spirit’s Gifts of Love

Anything in this world that you believe is good and valuable and worth striving for can hurt you, and will do so. Not because it has the power to hurt, but just because you have denied it is but an illusion, and made it real. And it is real to you. It is not nothing. And through its perceived reality has entered all the world of sick illusions. All belief in sin, in power of attack, in hurt and harm, in sacrifice and death, has come to you. For no one can make one illusion real, and still escape the rest. For who can choose to keep the ones that he prefers, and find the safety that the truth alone can give? Who can believe illusions are the same, and still maintain that even one is best?

Who dwells with shadows is alone indeed, and loneliness is not the Will of God. Would you allow one shadow to usurp the throne that God appointed for your Friend, if you but realized its emptiness has left yours empty and unoccupied? Make no illusion friend, for if you do, it can but take the place of Him Whom God has called your Friend. And it is He Who is your only Friend in truth. He brings you gifts that are not of this world, and only He to Whom they have been given can make sure that you receive them. He will place them on your throne, when you make room for Him on His. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.VI.1,3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We have a Friend Who offers us everything we really want: changless Love, indescribable peace and joy without limit. This Friend knows only truth and offers only truth. When we choose to value anything the world seems to offer, we are denying the truth. We are giving value to the valueless, making it seem real. This blinds us to the truth that is offered us in every instant.

We claim the gifts our Friend offers by being willing to question the value of everything we perceive in the world. We must follow this questioning with willingness to receive the vision of our Friend. His vision will show us the truth of Love that is everywhere to be seen. The certainty of this Love will bring us peace. And joining in this Love will bring us joy.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s gifts.

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Rise Above the Battle to See the Love

Each form of murder [belief in separation] and attack that still attracts you and that you do not recognize for what it is, limits the healing and the miracles you have the power to extend to all. Yet does the Holy Spirit understand how to increase your little gifts and make them mighty. Also He understands how your relationship is raised above the battleground, in it no more. This is your part; to realize that murder in any form is not your will. The overlooking of the battleground is now your purpose.

Be lifted up, and from a higher place look down upon it. From there will your perspective be quite different. Here in the midst of it, it does seem real. Here you have chosen to be part of it. Here murder [separation] is your choice. Yet from above, the choice is miracles [extensions of love] instead of murder. And the perspective coming from this choice shows you the battle is not real, and easily escaped. Bodies may battle, but the clash of forms is meaningless. And it is over when you realize it never was begun. How can a battle be perceived as nothingness when you engage in it? How can the truth of miracles be recognized if murder is your choice?

When the temptation to attack rises to make your mind darkened and murderous, remember you can see the battle from above. Even in forms you do not recognize, the signs you know. There is a stab of pain, a twinge of guilt, and above all, a loss of peace. This you know well. When they occur leave not your place on high, but quickly choose a miracle instead of murder. And God Himself and all the lights of Heaven will gently lean to you, and hold you up. For you have chosen to remain where He would have you, and no illusion can attack the peace of God together with His Son. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.IV.4:3-6:7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Belief in separation causes perception of differences, and differences conflict. Thus the ego’s world is a battleground. As we look at the world through the body’s eyes, conflict is everywhere: between countries, cultures, religions, political parties, families and individuals. The ego is indeed a battleground.

We can rise above the battleground with Holy Spirit’s help. As we are willing to let the Holy Spirit show us His vision, we see that all the seeming conflicts in the world are meaningless. It is only our identification with a body that seems to make conflicts capable of having an impact on us. From that perspective, fear and guilt are inevitable. But from above the battleground, we see that the conflict is meaningless, for the body is not what we are. We remain safe in the Heart of God’s Love.

Today we practice being vigilant for the temptation to engage in conflict. We will remind ourselves to stay above the battleground and remember that we share God’s purpose to extend Love and nothing else. This is how we will experience the peace of God.

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The Fast Route to Love’s Oneness

Everyone has experienced what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself. This feeling of liberation far exceeds the dream of freedom sometimes hoped for in special relationships. It is a sense of actual escape from limitations. If you will consider what this “transportation” really entails, you will realize that it is a sudden unawareness of the body, and a joining of yourself and something else in which your mind enlarges to encompass it. It becomes part of you, as you unite with it. And both become whole, as neither is perceived as separate. What really happens is that you have given up the illusion of a limited awareness, and lost your fear of union. The love that instantly replaces it extends to what has freed you, and unites with it. And while this lasts you are not uncertain of your Identity, and would not limit It. You have escaped from fear to peace, asking no questions of reality, but merely accepting it. You have accepted this instead of the body, and have let yourself be one with something beyond it, simply by not letting your mind be limited by [the body]. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VI.11. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The one Mind that we all share is the Mind of Love (God). The body was made to limit Mind and thus is an attempt to limit or deny Love. The ego thought system of separation is the denial of the oneness of Love. The way to accelerate our awakening to Love is to let go of the barriers to Love’s presence.

Forgiveness is the means to let go of perceptions that appear to separate us and make guilt and fear seem real. As we practice forgiveness and let go of divisive beliefs, we open the door to the experience of holy instants. The practice of applying the lessons of A Course in Miracles is the accelerated path for the return to Love’s Oneness.

The presence of guilt or lack of peace is simply an indicator that we are believing in a false image of our self. It is a reminder to ask the Holy Spirit for help to correct this mistaken belief. Today we dedicate to joining with the Holy Spirit, our true Self, to let Its Light shine upon our mistaken beliefs to show us the truth of our unity with Love.

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The Gift of Love’s Vision

Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. Things which seem quite solid here are merely shadows there; transparent, faintly seen, at times forgot, and never able to obscure the light that shines beyond them. Holiness has been restored to vision, and the blind can see.

This is the Holy Spirit’s single gift; the treasure house to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for all the things that can contribute to your happiness.

Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give. Are you not worth the gift, when God appointed it be given you? Judge not God’s Son, but follow in the way He has established. Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. Let us an instant dream with Him. His dream awakens us to truth. His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 159, W-pI.159.5:1-6:1;10. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

Christ’s vision sees past appearances of sin and guilt to the holiness of God’s Son in everyone. Christ’s vision sees what Love sees. It sees only innocence. This is the vision that heals our minds and all our perceptions. It is the vision of forgiveness because Love does not condemn and sees only Itself.

We open our minds to Christ’s vision by asking, “How would Love see this? How would Love respond to this perception?” As we accept Love’s answer to these questions, the guilt that used to be our companion fades away. Hopelessness and sadness are replaced by joy and peace. The world we experience is transformed into the perception of the real world, the forgiven world. This practice is a gift we give ourselves.

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